Pygmalion
28 October - 30 November 2016
Sullivan+Strumpf, Singapore
Installation view
In Roman mythology, Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved. The ‘Pygmalion effect’ is the phenomenon in which higher expectations lead to an increase in performance. Its inverse is the ‘Golem effect’, by which low expectations lead to a decrease in performance. Both effects are forms of a self-fulfilling prophecy; both observable effects at play in a world divided by the privilege of circumstance.
Using these themes, Seton replaces components of antique and modern bentwood chairs with his familiar medium of marble and digitally printed plastic proxies. The result is a series of hybrids in which the mass-produced melds with the hand made.
~ Chloé Wolifson
Golem Effect 2016
Fameg Bentwood chair, Pillsborough Green, Wombeyan, nylon digital print, steel and string
90 x 40 x 54 cm
There's no accounting for taste... 2016
Fameg Bentwood, Bianca Carrara, Wombeyan, watercolour, electronics
90 x 63 x 54 cm
Whatever it is, I'm against it 2016
Fameg Bentwood, Pisanino, Wombeyan, China brown, megaphone, watercolour
90 x 40 x 54 cm
Build it and they will come 2016
Fameg Bentwood, Bianca Carrara and Pearl
90 x 40 x 56 cm
Meno's Paradox 2016
Fameg Bentwood, Wombeyan.
90 x 40 x 54 cm
